Google’s ‘Tone’ Chrome extension lets you share URLs with nearby computers using only sound

Woah! High-tech communication with old school hardware!
#Google #Tone

This Is Google’s Plan to Save YouTube

#Youtube – Google moves forward

Google Inc’s new Asus Chromebit can turn any television into a smart TV

Complete spec of the ASUS Chromebit
#Chromebit #asus

Financial Post

Google Inc. has revealed another platform for its Chrome OS operating system – televisions.

Google and Asus’ Chromebit is an under US$100 HDMI-enabled device that plugs directly into your TV. The dongle is roughly the same size as a USB thumb drive and can turn any display with an HDMI port into a Chrome OS computer.

However, this concept isn’t exactly new since Intel also recently announced the Compute Stick, a US$150 HDMI dongle that provides the same functionality, but also gives users access to the full version of Windows 8.1. Other smaller manufacturers have also been releasing HDMI-based mini computers for approximately a year.

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The Chromebit is designed to be ultra-portable and the HDMI plug part of the device can be rotated, allowing it to be popped into almost any HDMI socket without the need for an extension cable. It also comes equipped with an impressive array of features: Rockchip…

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Waze for iPhone just got a brilliant new feature Google Maps can’t touch

#Waze add something Google Maps can’t
#GoogleMaps

BGR

Waze is a fantastic free navigation app that uses crowd-sourced data to process and deliver real-time information about the path you’re driving. It packs a wide range of nifty features into a playful interface, and it has a social element that no other widely used navigation app can match. But since Google acquired Waze and started using some of its data in its class-leading Google Maps app, the draw for Waze has been much less compelling.

Until now.

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Facebook Fights Info Overload With AIs That Identify What’s In Videos And Sentences

#Facebook wants to avoid the #Youtube problem with data management

7 big changes coming to Facebook

#Facebook is releasing new features to its service at a rapid pace

Google’s two-year time limit on mobile R&D projects before they are killed, adopted or sold

Google wants to rise competiveness againsn’t Facebook: wants to do better in area they dominate

#Google #Facebook

Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets

A terrific tool to manage you data… but just for media organisations for now #twitter #curator

If Star Wars was a Classic 80s Anime…

I love the 80’s

Here's Some Awesome

It would look exactly like this! Really got me routing for the bad guys here.

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Exposing Private Facebook Photos with a Malicious App

Just by putting numbers in the nav bar #facebook